Washing attachment for hose



Oct. 14, 1930. v H, T, F YD 1,728,552

WASHING ATTACHMENT FOR HOSE Filed Sept. 20, 1929 ATTOR N EY.

Patented Oct. 14, 1930 UNITEF) STATES HARRY T. FLOYD, OF GILLESPIE, ILLINOIS WASHING ATTACHMENT FOR HOSE Application filed September 20, 1929. Serial No. 394,020.

This invention relatesto certain new and useful improvements in washing attachments for hose, the peculiarities of which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The main objects of my invention are to provide means for stilfening the discharge end of hose on which an operative device is mounted and thusform a handle therefor; secondly, to provide a washing or scrubbing attachment for a hose connection that is adapted to deliver the water laterally to said device and thus avoid splashing; thirdly, to provide novel features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

Various attachments to hose for use in washing floors, automobiles, etc., consist of a brush attachment to hose and having Water delivered'by the dose through the back holding the brush bristles, or against the brush. hese devices spray the water in other directions than where needed on the surface to be cleaned and result in the operator getting wet. Also the hose being flexible, the brush can not be used efi'ectively by holding the hose at a distance from the end, but the hand must be near the attachment and therefore the operator is subject to the water splashing out upon his sleeve and clothes.

My attachment provides a brush, cloth or other suitable scrubbing device in a double or loop shape, only the adjacent sides of which are supplied with water so that the water is not wasted nor sprayed where it is not wanted but directly upon the bristles or other scrubbing device, from which the water flows upon the surface being cleaned.

Furthermore, the flexible rubber hose is stiffened for two or more feet away from the scrubbing device by a stidening tube or other means which is preferably inserted in the hose at the discharge end and is preferably connected to the special nozzle that discharges upon the brush or other scrubbing device. The nozzle in my preferred form has two holes in the same horizontal plane and these holes diverge outwardly so as to send the two jets of water along and upon the adjacent sides of the loop-shaped brush or other scrubbing device. No water is directed upward or away from the device therefore,

but readily flows from the bristles or cloth of the scrubbing device upon the surface being cleaned. In other words, the discharge end of the hose for a suitable distance back, is so stiffened as to provide a handle and enable the operator to reach outward over the top of an automobile, or use it like a mop on a porch floor, or up on a window sash for instance, and exert effective pressure on the scrubbing device. He does not need to put his hand upon the very end of the hose as is the case when the usual attachment to a flexible hose is used.

In the accompanying drawing in which like reference numerals indicate correspondingparts,

Fig. 1 illustrates my device as used for scrubbing a porch floor;

Fig. 2, a side view of a brush and my nozzle attached to a hose;

Fig. 3, a sectional plan view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4, an end view of my nozzle;

Fig. 5, a plan view of a loop center with a fabric thereon and attached to my nozzle; and

Fig. 6, an end view of my nozzle having a knife blade outlet for water.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 7 designates a hose length with the usual male coupling member 8 at the discharge end. On this coupling member is mounted my nozzle consisting of an interiorly threaded collar 9 having a short flaring projection 10 provided with a cross partition 11 in which an outlet opening for the water is formed, preferably by two holes 12 diverging laterally outward in a substantially horizontal plane across the nozzle and adapted to deliver a laterally flaring thin stream or streams of water. Lugs 13 or other means at the sides of the nozzle, support the ends of a loopshaped flexible wire center 14 for a scrubbing brush 15 carried by said center, which ends are held in holes in said lugs by set screws or otherwise.

The ter discharged from the laterally diverging holes of said nozzle outlet strikes adjacent sides of the parallel double portions of the brush as indicated, without III splashing upward as would be the case with an ordinary nozzle outlet. Then it flows downward under the brush on the surface being cleaned. The end of the loop connectin the double portions obstructs any water that escapes the parallel portions.

Said loop center 1% is preferably bent at a slight angle to the axis of the nozzle as shown in the side view Fig. 2, to facilitate the application of the scrubbing device to the surface being cleaned. For light work, the brush form of scrubbing device is preferred, while for heavy work a cloth 15 is secured to the loop center, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, with a plain wire center 15 The nozzle back of saic partition is threaded or otherwise adapter. to secure the end of pipe 6 extending back into the hose 7, and through this pipe the water passes to the nozzle outlet. This pipe is rigidly fixed to the nozzle, and being enclosed within the hose it stillens the discharge end of the hose and is thus adapted to form a covered handle for the scrubbing device.

This pipe or other stiffener for the hose, whether it is used inside as preferred or otherwise, may be of such length forming either a long or short handle, that the scrubbing device may be used upon a porch fioor like a mop (Fig. 1) or on a high window glass and even ceilin 's or walls of tile or other surfaces that will stand washing and are otherwise inaccessible except by stepladder. Another use is in the bath room where it can be used with a short handle to reach bet-ween the shoulder blades, which is usually difficult of access with the hand and brush alone. lVhile a brush such as the Fuller brush with bristles radiating from a twisted wire center loop is preferred as the scrubbing member, any other suitable scrubbing member may be attached to the nozzle, such as a cloth or fabric, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5.

For example: A hose may have a brass tubing located therein and threaded into the nozzle; or if desired, the tubing may be a which will nearly till the hose and then the two outlets in the nozzle may be correspondingly larger and supply a greater amount of water. However, it has been found by actual experience that the 4; pipe in a hose with two openings of diameter in the nozzle, provide the desired stiffness of hose and lightness for the handle, and the amount of water required for ordinary washing and scrubbing purposes.

If desired, however, the two openings may be combined in one knife blade opening 12 vertically thin and horizontally wide as a modified discharge opening, but the two laterally diverging openings are preferred, as above described.

I claim:

The combination with a flexible hose, and a male hose connection thereon, of a nozzle consisting of an interiorly threaded collar at one end for mounting on said hose connection and having a short flaring projection provided with a cross partition having a lateraly diverging outlet opening and also adapted for an inner pipe connection back of said partition, a pipe of smaller diameter than the hose and having one end rigidly secured in said pipe connection and the other end extending back a suitable distance within the hose forming stiffening means for the enclosing hose, said pipe functioning as a handle, and a scrubbing attachment mounted on said nozzle in front of the outlet and having two double portions substantially parallel and disposed at the sides of the laterally flaring outlet opening, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have atlixed my signature.

HARRY T. FLOYD. 

